reflow

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Verb

reflow (reflows, present participle reflowing; past and past participle reflowed)

1. (intransitive) To flow back again.

   The sea flows and reflows.

2. (transitive, chiefly, engineering) To cause to flow again, to remelt.

   Reflowing solder is a common form of rework in the manufacture of printed circuit boards: you heat up the solder and it flows where it should have flowed the first time.

3. (transitive, computing, wordprocessing) To modify the layout of text around other objects in a document.
   • 2008, Trish Meyer, Chris Meyer, Creating motion graphics with After Effects

     The latter option will reflow text to even out the spacing within each paragraph.

Noun

reflow (plural reflows)

1. A flowing back again.

   the flow and reflow of the tide

2. (computing) The process of recreating the layout of a document when some of its component elements have changed.

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